DTE2 events don't fire

Question

While trying to develop my first VS Addin, I am having issues in firing DTE2 events.

Basically, the DocumentOpened and LineChanged events don't fire for some reason. What important part did I miss?

namespace TestAddin {
  public class Connect : IDTExtensibility2 {
    private AddIn _addInInstance;
    private DTE2 _applicationObject;

    public void OnConnection(object application, ext_ConnectMode connectMode, object addInInst, ref Array custom) {
      _applicationObject = (DTE2) application;
      _addInInstance = (AddIn) addInInst;

      _applicationObject.Events.DocumentEvents.DocumentOpened += InitializeFoldingOnDocument;
      _applicationObject.Events.TextEditorEvents.LineChanged += UpdateFoldingOnDocument;
    }

    private void UpdateFoldingOnDocument(TextPoint startpoint, TextPoint endpoint, int hint) {
      RegionFolding(_applicationObject.ActiveDocument);
    }

    private void InitializeFoldingOnDocument(Document document) {
      RegionFolding(document);
    }

    private void RegionFolding(Document _document) {
      // Do the folding [...]
    }

    // Other IDTExtensibility2 Members [...]
  }
}

Answer 1

You need to save the DocumentEvents class. I think they will be disposed or garbage collected else.

In my case.

private SolutionEvents solutionEvents;

public void OnConnection(object application, ext_ConnectMode connectMode, object addInInst, ref Array custom)
{
    Globals.DTE = (DTE2)application;
    Globals.Addin = (AddIn)addInInst;

    solutionEvents = Globals.DTE.Events.SolutionEvents;
    solutionEvents.Opened += new _dispSolutionEvents_OpenedEventHandler(SolutionEvents_Opened);
    solutionEvents.BeforeClosing += new _dispSolutionEvents_BeforeClosingEventHandler(SolutionEvents_BeforeClosing);
}